{"id":169,"date":"2009-08-14T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=169"},"modified":"2009-08-14T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:08:28","slug":"healthcare-costs-nhs-vs-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/08\/14\/healthcare-costs-nhs-vs-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare costs: NHS vs US."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At risk of flogging a dead horse, there&#8217;s still quite a lot being said about the NHS as a comparator for American healthcare.\u00a0 With that in mind, there&#8217;s an interesting little piece on Liberal Conspiracy at the moment comparing the UK and US systems in terms of cost per head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberalconspiracy.org\/2009\/08\/14\/uk-v-usa-the-basic-healthcare-facts\/\">Do these numbers, and what&#8217;s done with them, look plausible<\/a>?\u00a0 They do to me, but then I&#8217;m statistically hopeless.\u00a0 Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>Coming up soon: a post on a different theme.\u00a0 A serious, philosophical one.\u00a0 By the end of today, too, if I get my arse into gear.\u00a0 No, really.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At risk of flogging a dead horse, there&#8217;s still quite a lot being said about the NHS as a comparator for American healthcare.\u00a0 With that in mind, there&#8217;s an interesting little piece on Liberal Conspiracy at the moment comparing the UK and US systems in terms of cost per head. Do these numbers, and what&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/08\/14\/healthcare-costs-nhs-vs-us\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,511,475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-in-the-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}